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Book: Playful Texts and the Emergent Reader

Chapter: Make-believe play and the making of meaning

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.26031

Blurb:

Traces the origins of pretend play as an intersubjective phenomenon and examines its metacommunicative and paradoxical nature. Highlights the links between playful, what-if thinking and mental reflexivity, the mind’s ability to think about its own mental processes.

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